John of Damascus, on Heb 1:2

“In these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.”

“He made the ages who exists before the ages, of whom the divine David says, "From everlasting to everlasting you are" and the divine apostle, "By whom he made the ages."38Now one should note that the term age has several meanings, because it signifies a great many things. The span of life of every person is called an age, and a period of one thousand years is called an age. Moreover, this whole present life is called an age, and so is the age without end to come after the resurrection. Again, that is called an age which is neither time nor any division of time measured by the course and motion of the sun, that is, made up of days and nights; but it is coextensive with eternal things after the fashion of some sort of temporal period and interval. This kind of age is to eternal things exactly what time is to temporal things.”

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